DATE
EVENT
2:00 p.m.
Outdoor Lounge outsideWoodhead Lounge
(Rain location - 314 Shanklin)
End of Semester Study Break. Come sum up the year, say goodbye to graduating seniors, appoint next year's steering commitee, and start planning for next year. Send ideas, nominations, questions (or volunteer yourself) to any member of the current steering commitee.
noon-1, Woodhead Lounge
Leadership Workshop. In conjunction with CRC. Analyze your own leadership style and position in group dynamics -- how can you make use of your own styles to be more effective?
4:00-5:30 PM Yale University
Go to AWIS-CT page for information; e-mail wis@wesleyan.edu to carpool.
AWIS -CT/WiSaY Panel Discussion: "Balancing Career and Family"
58 Exley Science Center, 7 p.m.
RSVP to wis@wesleyan.edu for dinner with speaker at 6 pm in 314 Shanklin.
From off-campus? click for directions.
Talk/discussion. Dr. Elizabeth Ivey Provost Emerita, University of Hartford; Prof. of Physics (Acoustical Engineering); President-Elect, AWIS "What Can You Do With the Rest of Your Life?"
12 noon,
Room 409, Exley Science Center
(Contact Prof. O'Connell for more information or to RSVP for the lunch.)
E&ES alumna talk: "Surveying Anthropogenic
Landscapes: Botanical Studies in the NY Metro Area and the
Northern Amazon"
Angela Steward, '00, will describe her work with the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the NY Metropolitan Flora Project
and her previous work in the Northern Amazon. She is
currently a PhD student at the New York Botanical Garden and
City University of New York.
Harvard Univ, Cambridge MA
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~wishr/nsaws/index.html
National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science. WesWIS sent a delegation to the previous symposium, in 2000. E-mail the steering comittee if you want to come, or for more info. Prof. Mukerji (Wes MB&B dept.) is one of the speakers.
Fri. April 4, 2003
12 noon 314 Shanklin.
RSVP to msnow@wesleyan.edu
to be included in the lunch order -- please include any
dietary restrictions and (prospective) major.
Spring Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch.
This is the middle of the Browsing Period for registration
for spring. Come share your experiences or questions with
others in your major or prospective major, as you choose
your courses.
6 p.m. Yale University
Go to AWIS-CT page for information, http://parmelee1.home.mindspring.com/
AWIS -CT Talk: Kitty Didion, current Executive Director of national AWIS: "Title IX: Why We Need It More Than Ever -- How Title IX Can Be Applied to the Scientific Enterprise."
12 noon,
Room 409, Exley Science Center
E&ES alumna talk: Andee Marksamer ('01, former WesWIS outreach coordinator and now Staff II Environmental Scientist with LFR Levine Fricke, Inc. in East Harford) will discuss Environmental Consulting: Job Options for an E&ES Major.
2:45-5 p.m Woodhead Lounge
Recent conflicting studies about the best ways to prevent, screen for, and treat breast cancer highlight the difficulty of understanding and evaluating medical research and advice. The keynote speaker, followed by a panel of two recent graduates and a current student, will discuss their respective research projects in a controversial area to help us understand the issues. Contact Maya Roberts for more information.
Forum on Breast Cancer: Science and the Public
Interest
Keynote Speaker: Maryann Napoli, Center for
Medical Consumers: "The Mammography Controversies"
Panel: Understanding the Issues
Claire Lutgendorf ' 03: "The Breast Cancer Culture:
Overlooking Prevention and Links to Environment in the
Mainstream."
Lorraine Binns '01: "Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer:
The Irony behind Access to Care"
Sarah Gollust '01: "Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
Susceptibility: Implications for Advertising"
12:00 noon, 121 Exely Science Center
01/27/03
12:00 noon, 121 Exely Science Center
12:00 noon CRC
(Butterfield A, 25 Lawn Ave.)
Networking/Wes-CAN Demo. Learn from the experts at the Career Resource Center how to find internship, job, and graduate school contacts.
ASK: Action Science Kids outreach - help plan or participate in science experiments with Middletown Fifth Graders. (The messy or edible ones are best.) See Argus article for details and contact info.
12:00 noon, Woodhead Lounge
Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch. Bring your coursebooks, questions, experiences, and appetites!
12:00 noon, PAC 101,
sponsored by E&ES Dept & part of the Schumann Lecture Series
Talk: "Perspectives from the Earth Summit: Population and the Next Generation" by Werner Fornos, President of the Population Institute.
7:00 p.m. Shanklin 107
RSVP to wis@wesleyan.edu to join WesWIS and AWIS members for pizza with Dr. Kelley before her talk.(click for directions)
Joint AWIS-CT/Wesleyan WIS sponsored talk. Kati Kelley, director of the CT Public Health Labs, "Terrorism Prevention and Response - the Challenge to all of Connecticut's Scientists"
12:00 noon, Woodhead Lounge
WIS opening meeting: meeting each other, discussing plans already under way and setting goals for the year; setting upWIS mentors: pairing up new members with upperclasswomen in their prospective majors.
Wesleyan Arena
WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
1 p.m. 314 Shanklin
(Biology Conference Room)
Reading Week Study Break/Final general meeting of
01-02. Farewell to seniors, discussion of plans for next
year, designate new steering committee.
2001-2002 Steering Commitee: Sita
Singhal (WSA contact) Justine
Shelley and Maya
Roberts (Outreach Coordinators) Jessica
Stewart and, Martha
Butkus (Speakers Committee) and, Laura
Raducha-Grace (mentor/mentee coordinator)
6:00 p.m. Keller Auditorium, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT
Join AWIS-CT members and the speakers for an informal dinner in cafeteria at 5 PM.
Click for Directions to UConn Health Center
Then go to the information desk in main hospital lobby and ask for directions to the cafeteria (faculty section) or Keller Auditorium
WesWIS members will be carpooling:
e-mail wis to offer or request a ride.
AWIS-CT Panel by members of UCHC Women's Health
Initiative
"Taking Care of Ourselves: Women's Health Issues
and Information"
Introduction by Kristen, Zarfos, M. D.,
Chair, Women' Health Initiative
"Strong Bones for Life: Recent Advances in the Diagnosis,
Prevention, and Treatment of
Osteoporosis"
Lawrence Raisz, M. D.
"Skin Care: Can We Defy the
Hands of Time? Let's Really Face the Issues! "
Jane Margaret Grant-Kels, M. D
7 p.m. Woodhead Lounge
e-mail msnow@wesleyan.edu to join speakers for dinner before the panel
Career Panel: "Post-B.A. degrees: Perspectives
from Alumnae in Health Professions"
Amy Duffield (MD/Phd student at
Yale)
Janae Donady (Dentist)
Catherine Arnold '82 (Internist)
5:00 p.m. C103 SHM, Yale Medical School
WesWIS members will be carpooling:
e-mail wis to offer or request a ride.
directions
Talk: "Reflections on a Career In Science"
Evelyn M. Witkin, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Rutgers
University, Winner of the 2000 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for
lifetime contributions to Genetics; one of the first women
to become a Member of the National Academy of Science.
Sponsored by AWIS-CT
and Office for Women in Medicine, Yale Medical School.
noon, 84 Hall-Atwater
Spring Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch.
Bring your coursebooks, appetites, questions, and
experiences!
noon, Woodhead Lounge
Lunchtime Talk: Profs. Laura Grabel and
Ann Burke of Wesleyan Univ. Biology Dept. will speak
about their experiences chairing sessions at the recent
annual national meeting of the AAAS.
What's new in Stem Cell Biology and Evo/Devo? What do
session chairs do? When did it stop being major news that
women were chairing sessions at national panels?
7 p.m., 121 Science Center
e-mail wis to join the dinner beforehand
The Chemistry of Love -- talk by Prof. Ariel
Fenster, Dept. of Chemistry, McGill University.
Prof. Fenster will also have dinner with WIS members before
the talk. MISSED IT? WATCH IT -
a version of his talk (and others) at http://cool.mcgill.ca/
Noon, 121 Science Center
"What To Do With Your Science Major and HOW - ideas and resources from the CRC." Lunch talk and discussion by Mike Sciola and Peggy Carey-Best (Wesleyan CRC and Pre-Health Advisor)
9 p.m., Woodhead Lounge
WIS mentor/mentee get-together, (coordinated by Laura Raducha-Grace)
downtown Middletown
WIS Outreach - do experiments with Jr Hi and High School girls at Middletown Youth Center (coordinated by Justine Shelley, more volunteers welcome)
Noon, Woodhead Lounge
Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch. Bring your coursebooks, questions, experiences, and appetites!
Pfizer Global R&D, Groton Laboratories, Groton, CT, 6 PM
e-mail Sita or Dr. Appel to carpool at 5pm
Career Opportunities along the Drug Development
Pipeline -- an AWIS-CT/Pfizer Women Leaders Network
event.
**those who attended invited some of the speakers to come
speak to WesWIS next spring.**
Wesleyan Arena
WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
2 p.m.
Tischler Lounge (outside SciLi)
Final general meeting of 00-01. Farewell to
seniors, discussion of plans for next year, transition from
old steering committee to new steering committee.
2001-2002 Steering Commitee: Jessica
Stewart*, Sita
Singhal*, Martha
Butkus, Justine
Shelley#, Laura
Raducha-Grace
* indicates WSA contact person
#Outreach Coordinator
Noon, 84 Hall-Atwater
"New Ethical Concerns for Women posed by Exposure to Environmental Toxins" Lunch talk and discussion by Prof. Lori Gruen (Wesleyan Univ. Dept. of Philosophy), in conjunction with the Bioethics Student Forum.
Noon, 139 Science Center
Spring Course-Selection Peer-Advising Lunch. Bring your coursebooks and experiences!
Thursday March 8, 2001
Noon, 201 Shanklin
Link to Office of
International Studies
"Yes, Science Majors really can do a semester abroad" Discussion Lunch, with presentations by current students who have returned from study abroad.
7:00 p.m., 107 Shanklin
Reception to follow.
E-mail to join informal dinner before talk.
Speaker: Dr. Kristin Zarfos, M.D., U Conn. School
of Medicine. "Empowering Women in Their Health Care
Rights -- Ending Drive-Through Mastectomies"
At UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT
Two workshops co-sponsored by Bayer College
(Bayer, Corp.) and AWIS-CT
"How to prepare your CV and personal statement for promotion
and career advancement" and "Marketing Yourself"
Noon, Woodhead Lounge
"How to get involved in research." Discussion Lunch, with input from grad students and post-docs.
01/11/01
Yale University, 4-5 PM
Harris Auditorium,Yale Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
Reception to Follow.
e-mail wis to
coordinate carpools.
Click here for directions.
Speaker: Prof. Nancy Hopkins, Professor of
Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Co-chair
of the Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at
MIT.
"A report on the status of women faculty in
science at MIT leads to new initiatives for faculty
diversity." Sponsored by AWIS-CT.
Noon, 84 Hall-Atwater
"Are things getting better or worse, and what
are we doing about it?" Pizza Lunch and Discussion.
We will report on & discuss to what extent things are
getting better or worse for:
-- Women in Science Careers (based on last month's
panel of women scientists),
-- Women as Health Care Consumers (as well as
Providers) . . . to be led by members of the Women, Health
and Technology course, Soc 227.
-- Women as Americans (electors are scheduled to be
determined 12/12.)
As part of "what are we doing about it," we will also set up
committees for next semester.
7 p.m., 121 Science Center
reception in Woodhead Lounge
Click for For Poster- please print and post where others will see it. Included directions and information on speakers.
Photos will be posted when webperson catches up.
"How to get there from here"- a panel discussion by women scientists in careers in industry, academia, and government/non-profit sector, on what they do and how they ended up in the positions they have. In conjunction with AWIS-CT.
Noon, 84 Hall-Atwater
WIS general meeting: informal peer-advising lunch meeting, to discuss course selection and majors, before preregistration course selection. Bring coursebooks!
10 p.m., Woodhead Lounge
WIS meeting: matching up mentors/mentees, setting up committees, making plans, hanging out.
Yale University
6 pm, dinner at Marigolds
7 pm talk in Harkness Lounge
Carpool to talk by Dr. Elga Wasserman, author of "The Door in the Dream: Conversations with eminent women in Science", sponsored by AWIS-CT. (Association for Women in Science, Connecticut chapter.)
Noon, 84 Hall-Atwater
WIS opening meeting: meeting each other, introducing new women faculty in Sciences,, discussing plans already under way and setting goals for the year.
Wesleyan Arena
WSA Activities Fair -- Wesleyan Women in Science staffs a booth with information and fliers.
Noon, Woodhead Lounge
Women in Science Summer Reading Club
Continued discussion of: Virginia Valian (1998) Why So
Slow? The Advancement of Women, Chapters: 14 + another
of your choice.
Noon, Woodhead Lounge
Women in Science Summer Reading Club
Discussion of: Virginia Valian (1998) Why So Slow? The
Advancement of Women, Chapters 1 and 9.
Noon, 314 Shanklin.
Women in Science Summer Reading Club
Discussion of: Emily Toth (1997) Ms. Mentor's Impeccable
Advice for Women in Academia.
